§ MR. CLOUGHI beg to ask the President of the Board of Education in how many instances the Education (Local Authority Default) Act, 1904, has been put into operation, and will he give a list thereof with the dates and causes of default, and of those which have since been withdrawn.
§ MR. MCKENNAI will send my hon. friend a statement showing the payments under the Education (Local Authority Default) Act, 1904, with the dates on which they took place. The cause was in each case that specified in Sub-section (1) (b) of Section 1 of the Act, viz., that it appeared to the Board that the managers had for the purpose of maintaining and keeping efficient the school incurred expenses for which provision should have been made by the local education authority. I am not sure what meaning my hon. friend intends to attach to the last part of his Question. Transactions under the Default Act, as he is doubtless aware, consisted in reimbursing to the managers certain sums which were subsequently deducted by the Board from the grants payable to the local education authority. No question of withdrawing these transactions can, therefore, arise.
§ MR. CLOUGHHave any withdrawn after being declared defaulters?
§ MR. MCKENNAThe moment they are declared to be in default the money is paid over to the managers so that there is no possibility of withdrawal.